LULAC Council 4871
The Dallas Rainbow Council
The Dallas Rainbow Council
LULAC
The Mission of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is to advance
the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, health and civil
rights of the Hispanic population of the United States.
LULAC 4871 – The Dallas Rainbow Council
Creating dialogue between the Hispanic and LGBT community which have a
common goal: full equality
What is LULAC?
In its history of over 80 years, LULAC has worked to bring about many of the
positive social and economic changes that Hispanic Americans have seen.
In 1945, a California LULAC Council successfully sued to integrate the Orange
County School System, which had been segregated on the grounds that Mexican
children were "more poorly clothed and mentally inferior to white children."
Additionally, in 1954, LULAC brought another landmark case, Hernandez vs. the
State of Texas, to protest the fact that not a single Mexican American in Texas had
ever been called to jury duty. The Supreme Court ruled this exclusion
unconstitutional.
Since that time, LULAC has fought for voting rights and full access to the political
process, and equal educational opportunity for Hispanic children.
It has been a long and often difficult struggle, but LULAC's record of activism
continues to this day, as LULAC councils across the nation hold voter registration
drives and citizenship awareness sessions, sponsor health fairs and tutorial
programs, and raise scholarship money for the LULAC National Scholarship Fund.
This fund, in conjunction with the LNESC (LULAC National Educational Service
Centers), has assisted almost 10 percent of the 1.1 million students who have
gone to college.
LULAC's activism has extended to the realm of language and cultural rights as
well. In response to an alarming increase in xenophobia and anti-Hispanic
sentiment, LULAC councils have fought back by holding seminars and public
symposiums on language and immigration issues, and its officers have spoken
out on television and radio against the "English Only" movement to limit the public
(and in some cases, private) use of minority languages.
Who is considered Hispanic?
According to wikipedia.org, Hispanic is one of several terms of ethnicity employed
to categorize any person, of any racial background, of any country and of any
religion who has at least one ancestor from the people of Spain or
Spanish-speaking Latin America, whether or not the person has Spanish ancestry.
It is therefore not a racial term, although as used in the United States it often
carries racial connotations. The term was first adopted in the United States by the
administration of Richard Nixon and has since been used as a broad form of
classification in the U.S. census, local and federal employment, mass media, and
business market research.
How many Hispanics are in the U.S.?
The estimated Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2005, is
42.7 million, making people of Hispanic origin the nation’s largest ethnic or race
minority. Hispanics constituted 14 percent of the nation’s total population. (This
estimate does not include the 3.9 million residents of Puerto Rico.) Source:
Census Bureau.
Why is LULAC needed?
Economics: The official poverty rate for the nation (as of 2008) is 13.2 percent
(national average). The Hispanic poverty rate is 23.2 percent, while the
non-Hispanic Whites average is only 8.2 percent. This means that nearly one in four
Hispanics struggles to make a living. Source: Census Bureau (http://www.census.
gov/hhes/www/poverty/about/overview/index.html)
Justice: The Federal Bureau of Investigation annual reports shows Hate Crimes
toward Hispanics...
Year Incidents Offenses Victims
2008 561 735 792
2007 595 775 830
2006 576 770 819
2005 522 660 722
2004 475 611 646
2003 426 529 595
Source: www.FBI.gov (http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2008/data/table_01.html)
Education: According to the National Center for Education Statistics...
1. Hispanic students have retention and suspension/expulsion rates that are
higher than those of Whites.
2. Hispanic students have higher high school dropout rates and lower high
school completion rates than White or Black students.
3. Hispanic enrollments in colleges and universities increased between 1980
and 2000, though a smaller proportion of Hispanics complete college compared
to Whites and Blacks.
4. There is a positive relationship between education and salary for all
racial/ethnic groups, but the incomes of Hispanic men are lower than those of
White men at most educational levels.
The Mission of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is to advance
the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, health and civil
rights of the Hispanic population of the United States.
LULAC 4871 – The Dallas Rainbow Council
Creating dialogue between the Hispanic and LGBT community which have a
common goal: full equality
What is LULAC?
In its history of over 80 years, LULAC has worked to bring about many of the
positive social and economic changes that Hispanic Americans have seen.
In 1945, a California LULAC Council successfully sued to integrate the Orange
County School System, which had been segregated on the grounds that Mexican
children were "more poorly clothed and mentally inferior to white children."
Additionally, in 1954, LULAC brought another landmark case, Hernandez vs. the
State of Texas, to protest the fact that not a single Mexican American in Texas had
ever been called to jury duty. The Supreme Court ruled this exclusion
unconstitutional.
Since that time, LULAC has fought for voting rights and full access to the political
process, and equal educational opportunity for Hispanic children.
It has been a long and often difficult struggle, but LULAC's record of activism
continues to this day, as LULAC councils across the nation hold voter registration
drives and citizenship awareness sessions, sponsor health fairs and tutorial
programs, and raise scholarship money for the LULAC National Scholarship Fund.
This fund, in conjunction with the LNESC (LULAC National Educational Service
Centers), has assisted almost 10 percent of the 1.1 million students who have
gone to college.
LULAC's activism has extended to the realm of language and cultural rights as
well. In response to an alarming increase in xenophobia and anti-Hispanic
sentiment, LULAC councils have fought back by holding seminars and public
symposiums on language and immigration issues, and its officers have spoken
out on television and radio against the "English Only" movement to limit the public
(and in some cases, private) use of minority languages.
Who is considered Hispanic?
According to wikipedia.org, Hispanic is one of several terms of ethnicity employed
to categorize any person, of any racial background, of any country and of any
religion who has at least one ancestor from the people of Spain or
Spanish-speaking Latin America, whether or not the person has Spanish ancestry.
It is therefore not a racial term, although as used in the United States it often
carries racial connotations. The term was first adopted in the United States by the
administration of Richard Nixon and has since been used as a broad form of
classification in the U.S. census, local and federal employment, mass media, and
business market research.
How many Hispanics are in the U.S.?
The estimated Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2005, is
42.7 million, making people of Hispanic origin the nation’s largest ethnic or race
minority. Hispanics constituted 14 percent of the nation’s total population. (This
estimate does not include the 3.9 million residents of Puerto Rico.) Source:
Census Bureau.
Why is LULAC needed?
Economics: The official poverty rate for the nation (as of 2008) is 13.2 percent
(national average). The Hispanic poverty rate is 23.2 percent, while the
non-Hispanic Whites average is only 8.2 percent. This means that nearly one in four
Hispanics struggles to make a living. Source: Census Bureau (http://www.census.
gov/hhes/www/poverty/about/overview/index.html)
Justice: The Federal Bureau of Investigation annual reports shows Hate Crimes
toward Hispanics...
Year Incidents Offenses Victims
2008 561 735 792
2007 595 775 830
2006 576 770 819
2005 522 660 722
2004 475 611 646
2003 426 529 595
Source: www.FBI.gov (http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2008/data/table_01.html)
Education: According to the National Center for Education Statistics...
1. Hispanic students have retention and suspension/expulsion rates that are
higher than those of Whites.
2. Hispanic students have higher high school dropout rates and lower high
school completion rates than White or Black students.
3. Hispanic enrollments in colleges and universities increased between 1980
and 2000, though a smaller proportion of Hispanics complete college compared
to Whites and Blacks.
4. There is a positive relationship between education and salary for all
racial/ethnic groups, but the incomes of Hispanic men are lower than those of
White men at most educational levels.
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Group Founders
(left to right): Zhyla
Alvarado, Ray De Los
Santos, Corey Slover,
Suzanne Hickman,
Patricia Mancha and
Jesse Garcia.
(left to right): Zhyla
Alvarado, Ray De Los
Santos, Corey Slover,
Suzanne Hickman,
Patricia Mancha and
Jesse Garcia.
| "I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change" Dolores Huerta |
Creating dialogue between the
Hispanic and LGBT community
which have a common goal: full equality.
Hispanic and LGBT community
which have a common goal: full equality.
History of LULAC 4871
Summer 2005
LGBT community meets
with LULAC leaders to talk
about defeating the
constitutional ban on same-
sex marriage in Texas.
They advise us to form a
chapter in order to bring
this issue to the table.
April 9, 2006
Thousands of Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual and
Transgender Latinos and
Latinas take part in Mega-
Marcha rallies across the
nation. This event helps
resurrect the idea put forth
by LULAC leaders.
May 18, 2006
LULAC Leader Renato De
Los Santos recruits
members for a new LULAC
Council made up of LGBT
people at the Valiente
meeting, an organization of
DFW LGBTQ Latinos. He
recruits 12 people.
May 25, 2006
Interim officers are
selected and the new
council is named "Gay
LULAC." Interim officers
are Corey Slover,
president; Suzanne
Hickman, vice president;
Zhyla Alvarado, treasurer;
Jesse Garcia, secretary;
and Paty Mancha,
parliamentarian.
June 12, 2006
LULAC National President
Hector Flores inaugurates
the council in front of 55
people, including several
LULAC state leaders, in the
Oak Lawn neighborhood.
July 25, 2006
Gay LULAC has its first
monthly meeting. The
guest speaker is Lena
Levario, who goes on to
become a district court
judge in November.
February 27, 2007
Gay LULAC officially
changes its name to
LULAC Council 4871 - The
Dallas Rainbow Council.
The new name allows the
group to be inclusive all
members of Council 4871
who are LGBT, Straight,
Women, Men, Hispanic,
Black, White and Asian.
May 26, 2007
LULAC Council 4871
sends four delegates to the
Texas Convention in
El Paso who present a
tolerance session at the
convention.
July 12, 2007
LULAC Council 4871
sends four delegates to the
National Convention in
Chicago and presents a
tolerance session at the
convention.
April 19, 2008
LULAC Council 4871 wins
District III Council of the
Year!
June 7, 2008
LULAC Council 4871 wins
Texas LULAC Council of
the Year!
July 12, 2008
LULAC Council 4871
passes a resolution at the
National Convention in
Washington, D.C., calling
for the repeal "Don't Ask
Don't Tell."
April 24, 2009
LULAC Council 4871
member Suzanne Hickman
wins "Woman of the Year"
and member Hon. Jaime
Cortes win "Man of the
Year" at the District III
Convention.
July 18, 2009
LULAC Council 4871
passes a resolution at the
National Convention
supporting the Employee
Non Discrimination Act.
April 10, 2010
LULAC Council 4871 wins
District III Council of the
Year and member Ramiro
Luna wins District III Man of
the Year!
June 5, 2010
LULAC Council 4871 wins
Texas Council of the Year
and member Ramiro Luna
wins Texas Man of the Year!
Summer 2005
LGBT community meets
with LULAC leaders to talk
about defeating the
constitutional ban on same-
sex marriage in Texas.
They advise us to form a
chapter in order to bring
this issue to the table.
April 9, 2006
Thousands of Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual and
Transgender Latinos and
Latinas take part in Mega-
Marcha rallies across the
nation. This event helps
resurrect the idea put forth
by LULAC leaders.
May 18, 2006
LULAC Leader Renato De
Los Santos recruits
members for a new LULAC
Council made up of LGBT
people at the Valiente
meeting, an organization of
DFW LGBTQ Latinos. He
recruits 12 people.
May 25, 2006
Interim officers are
selected and the new
council is named "Gay
LULAC." Interim officers
are Corey Slover,
president; Suzanne
Hickman, vice president;
Zhyla Alvarado, treasurer;
Jesse Garcia, secretary;
and Paty Mancha,
parliamentarian.
June 12, 2006
LULAC National President
Hector Flores inaugurates
the council in front of 55
people, including several
LULAC state leaders, in the
Oak Lawn neighborhood.
July 25, 2006
Gay LULAC has its first
monthly meeting. The
guest speaker is Lena
Levario, who goes on to
become a district court
judge in November.
February 27, 2007
Gay LULAC officially
changes its name to
LULAC Council 4871 - The
Dallas Rainbow Council.
The new name allows the
group to be inclusive all
members of Council 4871
who are LGBT, Straight,
Women, Men, Hispanic,
Black, White and Asian.
May 26, 2007
LULAC Council 4871
sends four delegates to the
Texas Convention in
El Paso who present a
tolerance session at the
convention.
July 12, 2007
LULAC Council 4871
sends four delegates to the
National Convention in
Chicago and presents a
tolerance session at the
convention.
April 19, 2008
LULAC Council 4871 wins
District III Council of the
Year!
June 7, 2008
LULAC Council 4871 wins
Texas LULAC Council of
the Year!
July 12, 2008
LULAC Council 4871
passes a resolution at the
National Convention in
Washington, D.C., calling
for the repeal "Don't Ask
Don't Tell."
April 24, 2009
LULAC Council 4871
member Suzanne Hickman
wins "Woman of the Year"
and member Hon. Jaime
Cortes win "Man of the
Year" at the District III
Convention.
July 18, 2009
LULAC Council 4871
passes a resolution at the
National Convention
supporting the Employee
Non Discrimination Act.
April 10, 2010
LULAC Council 4871 wins
District III Council of the
Year and member Ramiro
Luna wins District III Man of
the Year!
June 5, 2010
LULAC Council 4871 wins
Texas Council of the Year
and member Ramiro Luna
wins Texas Man of the Year!